Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE) stated this Tuesday, 28, that he is the target of a lawsuit for moral damages by the firm Barci de Moraes Sociedade de Advogados, which belongs to the family of the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes.
Vieira’s office reported that the action was filed by lawyer Viviane Barci de Moraes, the minister’s wife, and her children Giuliana and Alexandre Barci de Moraes, who are asking for compensation of R$20,000 for each of the authors.
When contacted to comment on the case, the office had not responded until the publication of this text. The space remains open.
They allege that the senator violated the honor and image of the office by stating, in an interview with the Sala de Imprensa program, on SBT News, that the office received money from the criminal faction Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC).
Alessandro Vieira argues that, at the time, he described the financial flow under investigation by the Organized Crime CPI, for which he was the rapporteur, and denies having attributed a connection between the PCC and the minister’s family office. “I didn’t say that. At no point was it recorded. What I said, I repeat, is proven and confessed, is that they did receive around R$80 million from Banco Master, which today we know, was a criminal group”, he states.
“What I did was report the probable process of money laundering carried out by a group that contracted the services of the Moraes family office. At no point did I point out a direct link between the PCC and that office,” he adds.
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Information from banker Daniel Vorcaro’s Income Tax declaration sent to the CPI indicates that Barci de Moraes Sociedade de Advogados received R$80,223,653.84 in payments from Banco Master, in 2024 and 2025. If the contract had been fulfilled in full, the amount paid could have reached R$129 million by the beginning of 2027.
The office stated that “it does not confirm this incorrect and illegally leaked information, remembering that all tax data is confidential”.
According to the senator, the lawsuit filed by the family of the STF minister is an “intimidation attempt” that adds to “threats and insults from ministers (Dias) Toffoli and Gilmar (Mendes) and are symptoms of a serious situation, where an elite believes itself to be untouchable”.
During the interview mentioned in the process, given on March 15, Alessandro Vieira discussed data received by the Organized Crime CPI about the Master’s financial activities. According to him, Master bank’s Financial Intelligence Reports (RIFs) produced by the Financial Activities Control Council (Coaf) point to the existence of a money “laundry”.
“You have ongoing investigations that indicate the arrival of resources from the PCC, a violent criminal organization. You have indications of payments to authorities of different powers, career public servants, politicians, and possibly people linked to the Judiciary,” he said.
In detail, he cites Moraes’ family: “We have information that points to the circulation of resources between this criminal group and family members of ministers Dias Toffoli and Alexandre de Moraes. It is not reasonable to say now that this circulation is illicit. Morally speaking, it is absolutely reprehensible. Legally speaking, we will have to take further steps to verify. When the Master hires the law firm of minister Alexandre de Moraes’ family, is he hiring a legal service? This firm provided services corresponding to the amounts received? So far the indication is that no”, stated the senator, who continued citing the identified payments.
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